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Chapter 3: A Quest

"What have the sands done to me now?" Asked the Prince.

"What does that mean?" Maxi asked. First he finds this guy on the beach, then he attacks him, and now he's yelling at the sand. 'This guy is crazy.' Maxi thought to himself.

The Prince then turned and looked at him. "Let me explain. I am from a kingdom called Persia, we are from the area I pointed to on the map."

"But I told you there is nothing there now except ruins." Maxi said with a questioning look on his face.

"Yes, I know." The Prince replied, "I am from the past."

"What? That's impossible."

"No it is not, I'm afraid it more than possible." The prince then pointed to the amulet in the center of his armor. The amulet was cracked. "This amulet carries the sands of time. One day as my father's army was conquering another nation I found a mystical dagger and a hourglass. Using the dagger I found foolishly opened the hourglass releasing the sands. I from there had to kill everyone I knew and loved. While I was there I met a girl named Farah. This was her Amulet. To make a long story short I used the sands to rewind time before the palace incident happened. I then gave the dagger back and received this amulet. Shortly after the incident, a strange black creature started to chase me. I have recently found out it's name to be the Dahaka."

Elsewhere in a area around Europe, a black cloud had just arrived. It sensed it primary target to be a long distance away. Then suddenly it felt another being interfering with the progression of the time line. It went straight towards the other being.

Al Simmons has been in the past for a while. "Dahm, why can't I find this stupid sword." He cursed to himself as he continued searching. He had a chance at it before but was defeated by a strange demon named Nightmare. The only reason he was still alive was due to a crazy Frenchman named Rapheal. Al Simmons, who now was known as Spawn, had passed out and didn't see who won between the two, and didn't really care he was after Soul Edge and that was it.

He then felt something coming up behind him. He turned around and readied his Ax. All he saw was a strange black cloud. "What the Hell?" Spawn questioned out loud as he approached the cloud. Before he knew what happened a large black creature appeared from inside the cloud. "Where were you hiding?" Yelled Spawn as he jumped back. As soon as he landed a tentacle wrapped around his ankle. The Dahaka picked up Spawn, slammed him down onto the ground, and knocked the wind out of him causing him to drop his ax. Spawn then grabbed for his ax but it was to late, the Dahaka drew him into the nothingness inside of it's own body.

It then once again found it's primary target and went after him. He can no longer be allowed to disrupt the time line. He must die.

"And that's how I arrived here." The Prince finished his story. Maxi was obvisouly confused but had the basic idea. "I need to find a way back, do you have any ideas?"

Maxi was still sorting it all out but spatted out "I don't, but I think I know somebody who might." The only person Maxi could think of was Kilik. A person who just recently returned to his memory. 'He probably doesn't know anything about time travel but if anyone could think of a plan it would be Kilik.' He thought to himself.

"Well then let's go find him shall we?" said the prince as he pointed off in the distance. "Where is he?"

"Well I'm not sure but we could go check near the ruins of the Ling Sheng Su temple. It's not that far away." Maxi said. "It's in that direction." he pointed north.

"All right lets go." He said as he started walking in the direction Maxi pointed. They then embarked on a quest to return the Prince to the past.

"One last question." Maxi said as they walked. "Is that thing leaking?" He said as he pointed to the amulet.

'What is this power you sense my sword.' The demon thought as he stared at his sword. It had sensed a power it hasn't felt in a long time. 'I must find it.' He then decided within himself. The demon then started walking in what ever direction his sword took him. 'I will be unstoppable with that.'